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Yudy Astrid Fonseca, MD

Academic Title:

Assistant Professor

Primary Appointment:

Pediatrics

Location:

110 S. Paca St. 8th Floor

Phone (Primary):

410-328-6957

Fax:

410-328-0680

Education and Training

Medical School:

  • Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 2011

Pediatric Residency:

  • Westchester Medical Center- Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, 2014

Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship:

  • Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego/UCSD, 2017

Global Health Critical Care Research Fellowship 

  • University of Maryland Medical Center and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, 2019

Certification:

  • American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2018

  • American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 2014 

Research/Clinical Keywords

Critical care in low resource settings, critical illness in low resource settings, global health, brain death

Highlighted Publications

Wooldridge G, Fonseca Y. Confirming Pediatric Brain Death in Resource-Limited Settings: Lessons and Challenges. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Oct;111:85-86. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.07.006. Epub 2020 Jul 7. PMID: 32951668.

Muttalib F, Ballard E, Langton J, Malone S, Fonseca Y, Hansmann A, Remy K, Hovmand P, Doctor A. Application of systems dynamics and group model building to identify barriers and facilitators to acute care delivery in a resource limited setting. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jan 6;21(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-06014-7. PMID: 33407458; PMCID: PMC7787401

Silva-Sepulveda JA, Fonseca Y, Vodkin I, Vaughn G, Newbury R, Vavinskaya V, Dwek J, Perry JC, Reshamwala P, Baehling C, Lyon J, Davis C, Lee JW, El-Sabrout H, Shahbah D, Alshawabkeh L, Moore JW, El-Said H. Evaluation of Fontan liver disease: Correlation of transjugular liver biopsy with magnetic resonance and hemodynamics. Congenit Heart Dis. 2019 Jul;14(4):600-608. doi: 10.1111/chd.12770. Epub 2019 Apr 30. PMID: 31038848.